Description

Give a Cluck and find out how free range those eggs really are with the CluckAR augmented reality app from CHOICE, the Australian Consumers’ Association. Just point your phone at the top of an egg carton and see for yourself. Not every egg labeled “free range” can pass our test. With CluckAR you can find the googiest eggs around.

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3.5

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Ben Hemming

App idea is great, but design is over ambitious. I don't need augmented reality... I just need the damn cartons to scan. Out of 7 cartons and about 20 attempts, only 1 scanned at my local supermarket. Why are we not just scanning the barcodes and being done with it? Would be simple and reliable.

Sarah Geeson

Great idea, but in a busy shopping centre it doesn't work. Only 1 carton scanned well enough to register. Would be far better as a simple barcode scanner.

Joel Booker

Works for me but a history of scanned cartons would be good

Phil Mungus

Has merit rateings & birds per/ha, needs better clarity.

m muller

Loved this app before the update but now it's terrible. It only managed to scan 1 box of eggs. Everything else I tried to scan resulted in the error message. Then the only way I could exit the app was to restart my phone. Not happy. Xperia

Todd Houstein

Trying to be too cute; it almost never successfully scans, so you just stand there in shop pointing your phone at eggs for minutes looking like a douche. They should use bar codes instead of image recognition.

User reviews

Ben Hemming July 31, 2017

App idea is great, but design is over ambitious. I don't need augmented reality... I just need the damn cartons to scan. Out of 7 cartons and about 20 attempts, only 1 scanned at my local supermarket. Why are we not just scanning the barcodes and being done with it? Would be simple and reliable.

Loved this app before the update but now it's terrible. It only managed to scan 1 box of eggs. Everything else I tried to scan resulted in the error message. Then the only way I could exit the app was to restart my phone. Not happy. Xperia

Trying to be too cute; it almost never successfully scans, so you just stand there in shop pointing your phone at eggs for minutes looking like a douche. They should use bar codes instead of image recognition.

I heard about this app and thought it would be handy. Unfortunately it doesn't work. I happened to have two different free range egg catons in the fridge and tried this app. It kept telling me it is not detecting anything on both of them. Very disappointing.

Super useful app, and recognition of cartons seems to be greatly improved since the latest update but, unfortunately, it's far slower to load (seems to load its carton database anew each time, rather than caching) and crashes frequently. Needs to work faster if you're scanning several cartons in the middle of a shop.

When I scan or look at shop or map I can get out of that screen or out of the app at all. I have to turn the phone off and on again the get my phones icons back so I can get out. Then it doesn't work properly anymore. I uninstalled amd reinstalled but it does the same thing.

The app is great for scanning cartons and advising of local shops with true free range eggs but I can't work out how to add shops to it as Choice suggested would be possible. This is either a fault in the app or it is not user friendly. Either way, it's a shame because I think this would be a really good feature.

Saw this on the news this morning and thought it was an excellent idea! Unfortunately, the app has been advertised too early. I keep getting 'service not available at this time' messages flashing on my screen. The map would be good, although there is nothing recorded in my area yet, it says you can share locations with good eggs. The only problem is, you can't actually share anything! There's no option to! Should get your stuff together before going on TV with it, you just look like idiots now. I'll hold on to the app for now with the hopes that the issues are resolved quickly, cause I can see a lot of potential in it. I can also see it expanding to include meats, fish and milk, both free range and organic. There is a huge market for that at present.